Mahmut Kandemir

Fifer: Tackling Underutilization in the Serverless Era

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Datacenters are witnessing a rapid surge in the adoption of serverless functions for microservices-based applications. A vast majority of these microservices typically span less than a second, have strict SLO requirements, and are chained together …

Optimizing CPU Performance for Recommendation Systems At-Scale

2023

Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRMs) are very popular in personalized recommendation systems and are a major contributor to the data-center AI cycles. Due to the high computational and memory bandwidth needs of DLRMs, specifically the …